A Study of One Piece Animation
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Toei sure loves Sabo…
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@Dahaka.:
Toei sure loves Sabo…
Well, he was…#5 in the last poll, after only Luffy, Law, Zoro and Sanji, right? So they assume people want to see more of him.
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I sure do. I get the feeling we won't see him for another million manga chapters(and a billion anime episodes)
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@Dahaka.:
Toei sure loves Sabo…
Oda said he wanted to do a short backstory on sabo with the revo's but he didnt have tome in the manga so he probably told toei to add a few things to the flashback and different things
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@Long:
Oda said he wanted to do a short backstory on sabo with the revo's but he didnt have tome in the manga so he probably told toei to add a few things to the flashback and different things
Yeah, sometimes the anime has room to expand on things Oda couldn't properly show in the manga due to time restraints - Lucci's backstory is a confirmed example that comes to mind.
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I really hate the lack of fluidity in One Piece's animation. Naruto and its anime may be an abomination, but its animation is fluid, and as such, it's still isn't as bad as One Piece's is. What I hate most about this is that it essentially is what keeps my friends from picking the series up. Sigh…..
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I really hate the lack of fluidity in One Piece's animation. Naruto and its anime may be an abomination, but its animation is fluid, and as such, it's still isn't as bad as One Piece's is.
I have to agree with you on that. One Piece animation can be so choppy at times, that in some cases, it looks like a slideshow. It lacks these smooth transitions between frames that other animes (for example Naruto) have.
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Will 739 come out next week or two weeks from now?
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Will 739 come out next week or two weeks from now?
@Chibi:
01/05 739 「最強の生物 四皇・百獣のカイドウ」
The Strongest Creature - The Yonko Kaido of the Beastscan't be more precise than that.
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Sorry if im off topic but why hasnt shida done any dbs scenes yet… As far as i see it he is the perfect db animator and has been part of db since the very start... Yuki hayashi and ryo onishi are also good db animators... They should keep those three and bring back naoki tate... His art style fits so well in one piece unlike any other series he has worked for
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Sorry if im off topic but why hasnt shida done any dbs scenes yet… As far as i see it he is the perfect db animator and has been part of db since the very start... Yuki hayashi and ryo onishi are also good db animators... They should keep those three and bring back naoki tate... His art style fits so well in one piece unlike any other series he has worked for
Probably because DBS schedule is so bad that he does not want to work in that tight schedule.
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Probably because DBS schedule is so bad that he does not want to work in that tight schedule.
One piece has as well but he is doing some scenes once in a while…. Thanks for the reply though
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One piece has as well but he is doing some scenes once in a while…. Thanks for the reply though
Nope, Dragon ball super schedule has been horrendous, even the animators are complaining on twitter. One Piece schedule is so much better and I heard they are a few episodes ahead.
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Nope, Dragon ball super schedule has been horrendous, even the animators are complaining on twitter. One Piece schedule is so much better and I heard they are a few episodes ahead.
That doesnt surprise me at all… I mean even toriyama complained about the bad quality... And the producer had the nerve to complain about the so called "exaggerated criticism" of the fanbase over the so called "rushed in-betweens" which according to him were bad because of the inexperience of the new animators
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which according to him were bad because of the inexperience of the new animators
Which is outsourced and underpaid, basically Toei need to get their shit together and increase staff/funding for outsourced staff and more importantly plan further ahead. I've noticed many animation changes from episodes the following week, that's how tight it has been at times.
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For dbs the best solution for me would be to continue with the films… Dragonball is not a fast paced/complex series so its not like you have to put more detail and fillers for the story to be more understandable... In fact condensing the story in 1+ movies with FAR better animation is the ideal approach...
For one piece we all know it needs either a TON of fillers or a togashi level hiatus -
Finally
! Voice Actor: Tesshō Genda
Source: https://one-piece.com/news/detail/20160429_3657
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Finally
! Voice Actor: Tesshō Genda
Source: https://one-piece.com/news/detail/20160429_3657
https://scontent-hkg3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlt1/v/t1.0-9/13087540_1305821732767319_1535844336848524305_n.jpg?oh=8c1f25e101d644c386d20433e3537086&oe=57BD5BA1Any other notable anime roles he has under his belt?
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I was secretly hoping for Norio Wakamoto, but I'll gladly accept freaking Optimus Prime and Younger Toguro!
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@Long:
Any other notable anime roles he has under his belt?
Plenty, since he's been in the industry since the '70s. He's done the Nine-Tails in Naruto, various Pokemon such as Blastoise, Taurus in Saint Seiya, Toguro as MasterKingJC said above, and outside of anime he's dubbed over Batman, Guile, Mike Haggar (points to avatar), Biff Tanen, and George Costanza at various points.
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Plenty, since he's been in the industry since the '70s. He's done the Nine-Tails in Naruto, various Pokemon such as Blastoise, Taurus in Saint Seiya, Toguro as MasterKingJC said above, and outside of anime he's dubbed over Batman, Guile, Mike Haggar (points to avatar), Biff Tanen, and George Costanza at various points.
Haha really, has there been any other seinfeld VA's from japan in one piece anime
Also made this edit to commemorate that ( spoiler for next episode to anime only's )
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! Does anyone think that because the next arc will be so short, we could get a higher volume of good animation?
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I rewatched Luffy versus Moriah and Oars and I must say, I liked that fight way more than I remember, so much so that I think Doffy versus Luffy is, well, total garbage in comparison (in the anime of course).
On another note, the main reason I hate the One Piece anime is the fact its animation and pacing is so bad that it deters newcomers, specifically a few of my friends. If it was simply even at Nardo's level (which has a better animation record, sans a few hiccups), then I could have more people to discuss the series with. Sigh…..
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Yeah, the One piece anime has some pretty mediocre animation lately, and even the good stuff isn't as good as a lot of the pre-timeskip material. I mean, I recently watched this Dressrosa amv, and I am astounded by the sheer mediocrity of a lot of the footage chosen compared to older AMVs, and at the same time I can't really think of any better footage to grab for this.
However, if you look at any Marineford AMV and you've pretty much got a slew of incredible footage, back to back. Dressrosa, despite being longer couldn't even provided enough great footage for a several minute AMV.
It's like Toei's success is just inspiring it to give it's animators nothing but hard deadline after hard deadline to the point they've muddied the quality of their best seller.
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Yeah, the One piece anime has some pretty mediocre animation lately, and even the good stuff isn't as good as a lot of the pre-timeskip material. I mean
Judging by your post you clearly haven't even watched it.
However, if you look at any Marineford AMV and you've pretty much got a slew of incredible footage, back to back. Dressrosa, despite being longer couldn't even provided enough great footage for a several minute AMV.
I'm sorry, but this complete rubbish. Dressrosa has the most amount of sakuga & the most quality sakuga by a long shot. You're basing your judgements on some shitty amv's made by some youtubers who selectively show what they want to show, good or not.
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Judging by your post you clearly haven't even watched it. I'm sorry, but this complete rubbish. Dressrosa has the most amount of sakuga & the most quality sakuga by a long shot. You're basing your judgements on some shitty amv's made by some youtubers who selectively show what they want to show, good or not.
I'm making my judgement on memory. The amv was just sort of getting the ball rolling. I'm not saying Dressrosa has no sakuga, it just has less sakuga, and honestly, there hasn't been any I'd say topped the Marineford (hell, even the stuff prior to marineford was great).
The only real noticeable and superb Sakuga I recalled from Dressrosa was the Law vs Doffy material during the beginning, and the Gear Fourth transformation. Everything else was just either ok or bad. (Though, I hear the Senor Pink episode was great. I haven't watched that because, argh Senor Pink.)
And perhaps a lot of that has to do with how short the arcs between Thriller Bark and the TS were, so it allowed the animators to stretch out and play with what they could do.
If you want to insult my opinion then give me the links to some extra sakuga to jog my memory so that way we can end this civilly.
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Not saying you don't have somewhat of a point, Davis, but you really need to rewatch a few earlier scenes from Dressrosa. Due to sheer length, it DOES have the most sakuga out of every other arc.
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/12814/animated-debris-effects-fighting-fire-liquid-naoto
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/13837/animated-effects-one_piece-smoke-yoshikazu_tomita
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/17429/animated-debris-effects-fighting-naotoshi_shida-on
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/15967/akihiro_ota-animated-effects-fighting-one_piece-sm
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/15966/akihiro_ota-animated-effects-fighting-one_piece-pr
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/15965/animated-effects-fighting-koudai_watanabe-one_piec https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/15877/animated-effects-explosions-fighting-fire-one_piece
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/14644/animated-effects-one_piece-smoke-takeshi_nishino-y
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/9837/animated-background_animation-effects-fighting-one
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/19856/animated-effects-henshin-naotoshi_shida-one_piece -
Dressrosa in its entirety is a huge arc, roughly the same length of from the first episode of One Piece to the end of Alabasta (give or take). Let that sink in. It's difficult to judge an arc in its entirety when it has so many strengths and weakness spread out across that many episodes. If anything it lacked consistency, it's been at the best and worst over 2 years.
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@Long:
Haha really, has there been any other seinfeld VA's from japan in one piece anime
I think you can hear Jimbei's seiyuu playing the waiter in these clips, and I swear Jerry's dad is played by Garp:
It's hilarious that even though it's in Japanese, I can tell that the dialogue is exactly the same.
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Not saying you don't have somewhat of a point, Davis, but you really need to rewatch a few earlier scenes from Dressrosa. Due to sheer length, it DOES have the most sakuga out of every other arc.
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/12814/animated-debris-effects-fighting-fire-liquid-naoto
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/13837/animated-effects-one_piece-smoke-yoshikazu_tomita
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/17429/animated-debris-effects-fighting-naotoshi_shida-on
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/15967/akihiro_ota-animated-effects-fighting-one_piece-sm
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/15966/akihiro_ota-animated-effects-fighting-one_piece-pr
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/15965/animated-effects-fighting-koudai_watanabe-one_piec https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/15877/animated-effects-explosions-fighting-fire-one_piece
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/14644/animated-effects-one_piece-smoke-takeshi_nishino-y
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/9837/animated-background_animation-effects-fighting-one
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/19856/animated-effects-henshin-naotoshi_shida-one_pieceOh man, I forgot most of these. It really has been too long. Those two years really did take a toll on the memory there.
Though, is it me, or do one of these animators have an affinity for shaking the character from left to right? It's weird sometimes, so are they trying to suggest the character is revving up for a swing of an attack or something? It just seems to be a common element there.
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The most gruesome scene I can recall from Dressrosa: https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/13837/animated-effects-one_piece-smoke-yoshikazu_tomita
This one, I know everyone loves Shida but there's something about it that gives the characters weightlessness, specific movements could have be emphasized rather than just everything curving: https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/17429/animated-debris-effects-fighting-naotoshi_shida-on
Animation works a lot better like this, practical with perspective and use of less frames, a better result without being too flashy: https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/15967/akihiro_ota-animated-effects-fighting-one_piece-sm
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The most gruesome scene I can recall from Dressrosa: https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/13837/animated-effects-one_piece-smoke-yoshikazu_tomita
This one, I know everyone loves Shida but there's something about it that gives the characters weightlessness, specific movements could have be emphasized rather than just everything curving: https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/17429/animated-debris-effects-fighting-naotoshi_shida-on
Animation works a lot better like this, practical with perspective and use of less frames, a better result without being too flashy: https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/15967/akihiro_ota-animated-effects-fighting-one_piece-sm
Gotta agree, sometimes the smoothness could use some snap
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Dressrosa in its entirety is a huge arc, roughly the same length of from the first episode of One Piece to the end of Alabasta (give or take). Let that sink in. It's difficult to judge an arc in its entirety when it has so many strengths and weakness spread out across that many episodes. If anything it lacked consistency, it's been at the best and worst over 2 years.
Oh this is truly mind-boggling. same length as the entirety of east blue and alabasta? It just shows how terrible of the idea for them not to do filler and cover more than one chapter in an episode.
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Oh this is truly mind-boggling. same length as the entirety of east blue and alabasta? It just shows how terrible of the idea for them not to do filler and cover more than one chapter in an episode.
Well counting the 5 left to go and assuming the pacing is 1:1 its more like from them leaving Syrup village to the end of alabasta, still really long In other words
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I'm sorry, but this complete rubbish. Dressrosa has the most amount of sakuga & the most quality sakuga by a long shot. You're basing your judgements on some shitty amv's made by some youtubers who selectively show what they want to show, good or not.
Dressrosa may have the most amount of sakuga but thats because compared to most of the other arcs it has twice the amount of eps… + more sakuga doesnt mean better sakuga... Aside from shida and tomita... all the other good key animators that had previously worked for the series either did rushed animations or did 5-10 seconds scenes with no importance... All the rest(including major scenes) were done by underpaid(i assume) subpar animators
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Dressrosa may have the most amount of sakuga but thats because compared to most of the other arcs it has twice the amount of eps…
Compare the same amout of episodes to the previous arcs & it still has more.
- more sakuga doesnt mean better sakuga
Never claimed that was the case.
Aside from shida and tomita… all the other good key animators that had previously worked for the series either did rushed animations or did 5-10 seconds scenes with no importance... All the rest(including major scenes) were done by underpaid(i assume) subpar animators
All completely false.
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@Long:
Well counting the 5 left to go and assuming the pacing is 1:1 its more like from them leaving Syrup village to the end of alabasta, still really long In other words
Taking into account the sheer size of the Dressrosa arc, and the lead-up on Punk Hazard, they should really slot in a re-cap episode. Everyone hates re-cap episodes but the next arc follows up from a 3 year long branching story.
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Taking into account the sheer size of the Dressrosa arc, and the lead-up on Punk Hazard, they should really slot in a re-cap episode. Everyone hates re-cap episodes but the next arc follows up from a 3 year long branching story.
I don't even want to pretend that isn't a possibility. It would be a cheap way to kill a week while being pretty warranted. Manga fans would hate it, but I think the anime stopped appealing to manga fans a long time ago.
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Dressrosa may have the most amount of sakuga but thats because compared to most of the other arcs it has twice the amount of eps… + more sakuga doesnt mean better sakuga... Aside from shida and tomita... all the other good key animators that had previously worked for the series either did rushed animations or did 5-10 seconds scenes with no importance… All the rest(including major scenes) were done by underpaid(i assume) subpar animators
Rush job? animators like takeshi nishino, shintani, takara isamu, kodai wantabe, shuchi ito and akihiro ota brought there A game to the dressrosa arc and toei went far enough to hire outside animators like takashi kojima.
shintani
takeshi nishino
Kodai watanbe
Akihro ota -
There was a beautiful scene of Rebecca when first arrived at the sun flower. I think tomita did that scene.
does anyone know where to find it?
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as some said before, Dressrosa was so long so many of people have blurred memory about it quality, especially after the increase of amount of rushed episodes at the end of the arc(just stop consume OP resources on specials)
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regarding dragon ball super, I think the producer make the newbies as scapegoats, the amount of newbies in the show from what I see is like other toei shows+ there are good amount of veterans with them, the problem is the ridiculously rushed schedule (as many of you know), which lead to ton of outsourced with no enough time to polish the drawing, but saying that will make the producer themselves as the cause of the problem :)There was a beautiful scene of Rebecca when first arrived at the sun flower. I think tomita did that scene.
does anyone know where to find it?
I don't remember it, but Tomita draw Rebecca many times (she is naked lady after all :P), so you can pretty much assume that it is his work
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There was a beautiful scene of Rebecca when first arrived at the sun flower. I think tomita did that scene.
does anyone know where to find it?
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post?tags=one_piece
It has most of the sakuga… Although i couldn't find rebecca's scene... Maybe someone will upload it in the future
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https://sakuga.yshi.org/post?tags=one_piece
It has most of the sakuga… Although i couldn't find rebecca's scene... Maybe someone will upload it in the future
Yeah I tried to search for it there, but I could not find it. Thanks though
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Compare the same amout of episodes to the previous arcs & it still has more. Never claimed that was the case. All completely false.
I can give you an example… In dressrosa shida did 6-7 scenes(including kaido introduction) in a span of 109 eps... In marineford he did 6 scenes in a span of 33 episodes... And don't be so absolute with your opinion saitama sensei:sad:
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The anime is actually at a pretty solid point right now. Much better handled and more consistent in every aspect than in its Enies Lobby, Impel Down or Fishman Island days.
For instance, Yokoyama and Deguchi used to be those horrible animation supervisors that everyone hated years ago. Paired with the right people, now Yokoyama delivers great episodes and Deguchi's are at the very least passable.
And great sakuga comes out a lot more often and in larger dosis, there's not even a comparison there, so there's nothing to do with the length of the arc. It gives a feel there's better planning behind the scenes now. -
The anime is actually at a pretty solid point right now. Much better handled and more consistent in every aspect than in its Enies Lobby, Impel Down or Fishman Island days.
For instance, Yokoyama and Deguchi used to be those horrible animation supervisors that everyone hated years ago. Paired with the right people, now Yokoyama delivers great episodes and Deguchi's are at the very least passable.
And great sakuga comes out a lot more often and in larger dosis, there's not even a comparison there, so there's nothing to do with the length of the arc. It gives a feel there's better planning behind the scenes now.Even with good animators deguchi's eps still look bad or its precisely because of the sudden ups and downs of the animation/art quality that some of his ep look so messy(except for ep 709 and 737) and that implies to all the other directors too… But i agree that when yokoyama has good directors working on his eps(especially when he does transition or characteration eps) he is great... I mean ep 400 and 459 are amazing... I've watched them 20 times each... Nevertheless, i think the anime right now is at its worst phase ever... Its not only the inconsistent animation and the abismal pacing which are abusive for the series by themselves... Everytime i watch an ep it feel so monotonous and weak(especially the audio, its like it was recorded by fans)... The only consistent eps of the entire arc are 630,661,670,696,698,706, 715,723, 726 and 733...but that's just my opinion
P. S Ep 616 is better than any dressrosa ep
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Rush job? animators like takeshi nishino, shintani, takara isamu, kodai wantabe, shuchi ito and akihiro ota brought there A game to the dressrosa arc and toei went far enough to hire outside animators like takashi kojima.
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Akihro otaI wouldnt have even bothered. Most people are only gonna ever remember the bad,and they are the most vocal.
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I can give you an example… In dressrosa shida did 6-7 scenes(including kaido introduction) in a span of 109 eps... In marineford he did 6 scenes in a span of 33 episodes... And don't be so absolute with your opinion saitama sensei:sad:
Shida's work schedule is irrelevant to the discussion. That's such a horrid way to prove anything. He works on other series and some of the scenes he did in marineford were really short.
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On the subject of One Piece's overall quality as a series, perhaps I can lend a unique or unbiased perspective. Having begun the series in December, I finally caught up just yesterday, in fact. It's been an interesting journey, and I've thoroughly enjoyed watching the show's visual style shift throughout the overwhelming number of arcs.
For some background on myself: I'm very much into the animation industry, currently leading one of the more popular animation threads over on Kanzenshuu, so I'm no stranger to Toei, its animators, and the current state of the industry.
Reading some of the responses in this thread has been a mix of interesting, and a little disheartening. There appears to be an overwhelming lack of understanding for how long-running series function, and a severely unrealistic set of expectations held – especially from fervent manga fans. I can certainly relate to these expectations; with any adaptation of something you hold dear, you want each page brought to the screen in a way that matches the magic conjured in your head while reading.
Unfortunately, a weekly anime of an on-going series is never going to make such a thing possible -- this isn't exclusive to Toei, nor is it at all related to the overworked and underfunded animation industry of the past few years. As far back as anime adaptations have been a thing, the quality of a show meanders up and down from week to week. The degree to which this meanders often varies from series to series: Dragon Ball's various series, for example, often swayed from low to mediocre, relegating the most impressive motion to choice moments in the many movies.
From my experience over the past few months, One Piece has evolved over the years, with its standards ever changing. From episode 1 through to the halfway point in the Water 7 arc, the show's visual quality remained fairly rooted in mediocrity. Its biggest bonus lay in the fact it was consistently on-model from week to week. There were seldom genuine "sakuga moments", instead opting for cheap effects -- shaking stills, repeated frames, and implied action. The two points that ultimately stood out to me were Luffy's final blows to Crocodile and Eneru – both by Katsumi Ishizuka, one of the few talents producing anything noteworthy during this period.
As the show made its way into Enies Lobby, it seemed like the production being handed over from Shinji Shimizu to Junnen Umezawa (and onwards) really helped bring in a wealth of new talent. Suddenly, I began to see the likes of Naoki Tate and Naotoshi Shida making regular appearances. In particular, the former seemed to help carry One Piece (and himself, for that matter) out of mediocrity and into true greatness. Tate's lovely loose style worked so well for the show, and his use of his own character designs seemed to help shape the series' aesthetics into what it is today (alongside Oda's natural transitions, of course). Every major moment appeared to be handled wonderfully, from the build-up to Gear Second to the Lucci fight, and onwards. One Piece really seemed to shine as one of the few longrunning series that nailed all of its key moments. Coming from Dragon Ball, where the the likes of Uchiyama somehow ended up handling monumental moments, this was a real shock to me.
For me, it seemed the series really hit its peak from Thriller Bark through to the Paramount War saga. It was around this time that the now beloved Shida was really blossoming into the animator he is today – likely in thanks to his work on the PreCure series. He delivered some of his best work during these arcs, and yet he was only a small part of what made it so unbelievably polished. You also had Kenji Kuroyanagi, Shuichi Ito, and Kazuya Hisada himself all contributing to the overall quality of the show. It was a real sight to behold.
Of course, like any long-form series, there are a number of episodes where things aren't particularly polished, or are even outright poor. This is normal, and it's not something anyone should ever get worked up over. To allow time for talented animators to deliver on important moments, it's necessary to 'sacrifice' less important episodes. If there's one thing the series is damn good at, it's nailing those key scenes. As long as they're good, it's totally fine to have lesser parts throughout. I have to wonder whether a lot of the annoyance comes from fans who have their own unique feelings towards scenes in the manga – the anime doesn't consider them all that important, and so the upset spawns when they're not treated as some might expect? While I can totally appreciate that point of view, and absolutely relate to it on many levels, I do feel it's perhaps a little unfair.
As I watched past the time-skip, I kept expecting a shift in quality, having heard the complaints from fans about the show's animation. I watched through Fishman Island and Punk Hazard waiting for the expected collapse, and it never came. All the key scenes featured adequate sakuga from the series' best animators, with few exceptions. It wasn't until Dress Rosa rolled around that I began to see a noticeable decrease in the occasional episode. Though the highlights absolutely did not falter, some of the most dialogue-heavy week-to-week episodes seemed rougher, more rushed, and lacking the same consistency of the previous arcs. As the arc moved towards its climax, fights that realistically should have looked great were mediocre at best. I imagine this is due to Film Gold's production, so at least there's a plausible reason. Thankfully, the Gear Fourth transformation and the subsequent fights were wonderfully animated, with the now fully grown Tomita showcasing his skills next to Shida.
I think this ultimately brings things back to expectations, and where best to place the blame and anger. The series' quality meanders nicely between mediocre and impressive; its key moments are seldom ruined, and there are plenty of plain good cuts to fill in the gaps. I'm not particularly sure what many fans are expecting, or why they're expecting more. This is a series that allows creative freedom to flourish among its animators, and has honed the skills of some of the industry's finest talents over the years. I look over from Dragon Ball, a franchise that is creativity stagnant thanks to the overbearing hand of Tadayoshi Yamamuro. I look over from Dragon Ball Super, a series so poorly scheduled that even the most basic of episodes are ruined by horrendous drawings. Its climactic scenes have yet to be done justice, and the talented names that pop up in the occasional episode simply can't deliver to the best of their ability. I really don't think this fandom understands how well nourished One Piece really is in the grand scheme of things. Surely the last thing this fandom wants is a return to consistently bland art and low-to-middling animation? I've seen cries for that in the Dragon Ball community... Surely the creativity displayed throughout this series proves that the occasional spotty episode is worth the ups it brings? How many series get the unique visuals of 3D2Y, Movie 6, and Inoue's films, while also sporting manga-accurate visuals for Oda-written pieces?! That's something special, honestly.
For me, One Piece's biggest issue is absolutely 100% with its pacing, not its animation. The series could utilise filler arcs far more than it currently does. The last fully fledged filler arc that I can recall was back in 2007?! A good 10 episode arc here and there would allow enough of a buffer to let Toei ramp up the pacing when the story necessitates it. That's where my biggest concerns lie right now. The series' visuals are its strong point! Though I appreciate this (surprisingly) lengthy post isn't going to change many minds, I do hope it at least spurs some consideration for the show's standing in comparison to the rest of the weekly anime industry. You guys really do have it great, for the most part.